Year 9
Start here for Year 9 Geography exams: a topic map linking every guide section, a two-week plan, every key term as flashcards, and a 50-mark mock exam with knowledge questions, real data analysis and an extended response, with full marking guides.
Year 9
The Year 9 skills toolkit: writing inquiry questions, primary and secondary data, planning fieldwork, choosing the right graph or map, reading choropleths and scatter graphs, calculating percentage change and population density, drawing conclusions and evaluating strategies.
Year 9
Why places trade, Australia's trading partners and exports in real DFAT data, how trade changes over time and at every scale, the effects of producing and consuming goods on places, embodied carbon, e-waste and supply chains, and strategies for more sustainable production and consumption.
Year 9
How transport and digital technologies connect people to services, information and each other; the digital divide in the world and in Australia; services delivered across borders; the growth and impacts of tourism; managing Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa; and how trends and diseases spread.
Year 9
What food security means, how many people go hungry in the world and in Australia, population projections to 2100, the environmental, economic and political constraints on feeding everyone, food waste, First Nations food knowledge, and strategies that work.
Year 9
How people turn biomes into farms, what drives crop yields in Australia and Asia, the wheat and rice stories in real FAO and ABS data, agricultural innovation, and the environmental costs: clearing, soil and water degradation, salinity and runoff to the Reef.
Year 9
What biomes are and why they sit where they do: climate, soils and vegetation, land and water biomes, productivity, reading climographs, Australia's biomes compared with Indonesia's, and how the four spheres and human activity change them.
Year 9
Start here for Year 9 History exams: a topic map linking every guide section, a two-week plan, every key term as flashcards, and a mock exam with knowledge questions, source analysis using invented sources and real referendum data, and an extended response.
Year 9
The Asia option for Year 9: Tokugawa Japan and sakoku, Perry's ships and the unequal treaties, the Meiji Restoration and its reforms, the Satsuma Rebellion, the Meiji Constitution, wars with China and Russia, Korea, and a comparison with Qing China.
Year 9
Australia and the First World War, 1914–1918: causes, why Australians enlisted, Gallipoli, the Western Front and the Middle East, trench warfare and new weapons, the home front, conscription referendums, returned soldiers, Versailles, and debates about Anzac.
Year 9
Australia 1851–1914: the gold rushes, Eureka and colonial democracy, non-European experiences, nationalism, the steps to Federation, the White Australia policy, votes for women, the 'social laboratory' reforms, life around 1900, and the debates historians have about them.
Year 9
Australia 1788–1900 from many perspectives: First Nations Countries before 1788, why Britain colonised, Cook's instructions and terra nullius, expanding settlement, frontier conflict and massacres, contested figures, protection laws, resistance and survival.